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THALAMIFLORjE. 
the base, rostrate at the apex with the beak incurved, roundish, 
slightly compressed, ferrugineo-hirsute : seed single, obovato- 
globose, mucronate at its lower end, with a slight depressed 
streak for receiving the setaceous funicule which is inserted at 
the rounded apex ; episperm or integument very hard. 
This is a very common tree in the higher mountains, and it 
is singular that it should have hitherto escaped the notice of 
Botanists. The wood is very soft and friable. It is commonly 
called the Sumach. The old leaves acquire a bright red colour 
previous to being shed. 
II. Galipea. 
Calyx short, 5-toothed. Petals 5, united into a 
hypocrateriform corolla, or very much approximated, 
with a short pentagonal tube, and with the lobes pa- 
tent and acute. Stamens 4-7, hypogynous, subad- 
herent to the petals, unequal, sometimes all of them 
fertile, or 2 larger and antheriferous, and 2-5 shorter 
and sterile. Nectary cupuliform. Styles 5, united into 
one, constituting a 4-5-sulcated stigma. Carpels 5, 
or fewer from abortion, obtuse, cocculiform, sessile, 
with the endocarp separable. Seeds from abortion 
solitary : cotyledons large, corrugated, biauriculated. 
— De Cand. 
Shrubs or trees : leaves alternate, simple, or plurifoliate. — 
Name, from a South- American appellation of one of the species. 
1. Galipea pentaphylla. Fine-leaved Galipea . 
Leaves 5-3-foliate, leaflets oblong obtuse at both 
ends glabrous, panicle terminal, flowers pentandrous. 
HAB. Road from St Michael’s Chapel to Green Valley 
Works, and below Moccha Works, Port-Royal. 
FL. July. 
A tree, about 30 feet in height : branches terete, ash-colour- 
ed, glabrous. Leaves 5- rarely 3-foliate ; leaflets petiolulated, 
oblong, rounded at both ends, entire, glabrous, pellucido-punc- 
tulated, nerved and veined : petiole elongated, terete : petiol- 
ules l an inch in length. Panicle terminal: common peduncle 
elongated, dividing into about 5 branches, each of which are 
subdivided. Flowers shortly pedicelled, very numerous, not 
large, of a yellowish colour. Sepals 5, unequal, rounded, mi- 
nutely puberulous externally, imbricated. Petals 5, hypogy- 
